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Santorum begins to concede 2012 race with warning

By Glen Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 04, 2012

Faced with increasingly long odds of catching Mitt Romney for the Republican presidential nomination, and the near certainty of his rival securing it before any possible brokered convention in Florida this summer, Rick Santorum has begun to concede the 2012 race in his own way. He is warning that if Romney wins the nomination this summer but is defeated this fall by President Obama, Republicans will only have themselves to blame for bypassing a self-proclaimed true conservative like him.

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